A25291:2036
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13. For none beside God himself can either understand what will be acceptable to him: or can ad that ⟨p. 310⟩virtue to any worship whereby, it may be made effectual and profitable for us; neither can there be any thing honourable to God, which comes not from him as the author of it, neither finally do we read that such a power was at any time given to any man by God, to ordain any worship at his own pleasure. Matthew 15. 9. In vain do thy worship me, •eaching for doctrines the precepts of men.
13. For none beside God himselfe can either understand what will be acceptable to him: or can ad that ⟨p. 310⟩vertue to any worship whereby, it may be made effectuall and profitable for us; neither can there be any thing honorable to God, which comes not from him as the author of it, neither finally doe we read that such a power was at any time given to any man by God, to ordaine any worship at his own pleasure. Matthew 15. 9. In vaine doe thy worship me, •eaching for doctrines the precepts of men.
14. Hence implicitly and by interpretation of God himself, we make him our God, and give the honour due to God to him, whose authority or ordinances we subject our selves unto in religious worship.
14. Hence implicitly and by interpretation of God himselfe, we make him our God, and give the honour due to God to him, whose authority or ordinances we subject our selves unto in religious worship.